Run Better Meetings
Hybrid, virtual, or in person – set meeting best practices that support your desired meeting norms.
Your newly hybrid workplace will include virtual, hybrid, and physical meetings, presenting several challenges:
- The experience for onsite and remote attendees is not equal.
- Employees are experiencing meeting and video fatigue.
- Meeting rooms are not optimized for hybrid meetings.
- The fact is that many people have not successfully run hybrid meetings before.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Successful hybrid workplace plans must include planning around hybrid meetings. Seamless hybrid meetings are the result of thoughtful planning and documented best practices.
Impact and Result
- Identify your current state and the root cause of unsatisfactory meetings.
- Review and identify meetings best practices around meeting roles, delivery models, and training.
- Improve the technology that supports meetings.
- Use our quick checklists and decision flowchart to accelerate meeting planning and cover your bases.
Run Better Meetings Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should run better meetings, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Identify the current state of meetings
Understand the problem before you try to fix it. Before you can improve meetings, you need to understand what your norms and challenges currently are.
2. Publish best practices for how meetings should run
Document meeting roles, expectations, and how meetings should run. Decide what kind of meeting delivery model to use and develop a training program.
3. Improve meeting technology
Always be consulting with users: early in the process to set a benchmark, during and after every meeting to address immediate concerns, and quarterly to identify trends and deeper issues.